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In Case You Missed It

I had a great chat with end of the world magazine, which you can now watch on YouTube. We talked about grief, love, writing as an archive, “selling” oneself as a writer online, and my preoccupation with the topics that eventually became the Intellectual as Influencer piece. Thanks

emma

for being such an inquisitive and thoughtful host!

Intellectual as Influencer.

On My Reading List This Weekend

• “Death to captchas”: in proving our humanity, we’re giving machines further insight into our own thinking (MIT Technology Review)

• The underage workers training AI (Wired)

• The socially-conscious mean girl (Words from Eliza)

• The literacy crisis among college students (Slate)

• The immoral disappearance of Coyote vs Acme (LaineyGossip)

• After breakups, the brokenhearted are creating AI clones of their exes (Futurism)

• Meet the chatbot that acts like a social media obsessed teen (The Daily Beast)

• Jia Tolentino on writing as “cathartic depletion” (Calendance)

• Paloma Elsesser on the price of being first (The Cut)

• “A community predicated on the pursuit of pleasure is more an archipelago of self-contained islands than it is a home” (Communion)